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WEDNESDAY JAN 20 1904
WHO POLLED THE STRINGS
Anont Treasurer Kcpolkals absonco
onjlaul last week tho Star on Satur
day last said that certain Interested
parties desired Mr Kcpolkals ah
cenco because they did not want him
to speak In public until he had been
properly coached In private Who
aro these interested parties 7 Pleaao
come out with them And who are
those privately coaching iilm as well
a3 those who pull Mr Kepoikais
strings Tho luminosity of Its great
minds are much beyond Its thinking
pans in conjuring fables out of noth
ing Anally completing a yarn that It
wna not a fortuitous combination of
circumstances which carried Mr Kc
rclkal to Maui which Mr Kepolkal
sayB was cheerfully granted leave of
absonco by its pet Governor Carter
And who aro theso men who work tho
strings and aro propared to go to
rny lengths to run thoir schemes
All rot buncomb and balderdash Try
something elso that can bo more cas
ily bolloved and no such tommyrot aa
it has been giving out to Its readers
Whllo attempting to make out a casq
against Troasurer Kopolkal tho samo
Ctar said as follows This naturally
Irlngs anyono to a consideration of
jw It was that tho knowlcdgo which
i ndnubtedly led to Mr Kopolkais op
jrtuno disappearance leaked out
I hero was a leak somewhere It is not
for tho Star to show whoro that leal
was because If one has not absolute
proof there is no uso In making n
chargo but that leak thoro was la
shown by tho event It it had not
absolute proof of such a leaky why
doo3 it sco fit to say anything at all
about it Dut it insinuates a leak
somewhere And from whero did tho
leak come There can bo only ono In
ference that tho leak came from tho
Supremo Court 1 c from ono of its
Justices Wo think this a most serious
chargo for one to make and wo con
sider 1 a slur upon tho Courts inter-
rlty and honor Tho blame if thoro Is
any is placed upon tho Court and in
stead of throwing Insult upon the
Treasurer it is heaping it on tho Court
for being remiss In its duty as well as
for allowing thomattcr to leak out
Wo consider this action on tho Stars
part despicable and contemptuous It
isjho plain duty of tho Court to purgov
itself of this odium and innuendo It
has not absolute proof yet it charges
tho highest tribunal with allowing a
leak to take placo in advance of its
decision Lot the Court caulk up this
avenuo of falsehood as it Is its plain
duty in tho premises and cite those
responsible for making and asserting
such a delusion to answer
In another part this great expound
er of Republicanism said as follows
The men who work tho strings are
prepared to go to any lengths to ruu
thoir schemes They aro playing a
deep game -with an appearance of
working for the people when In fact
they aro working for nothing but their
own selfish ends Their idea is mon
ey dhd nothing but money talks Does
it mean to Insinuate thatjnothlng but
money talks with Treasurer Kopol
kal inferring thoroby that ho is open
to bribery As far as known Mr Kc
polkals charactor is above reproach
with regard to giving and accepting
bribes Wo deem this an insult for wo
think wo know him sufficiently well to
bellovo him unimpeachable and not
suscoptlblo to any such shady transac
tion unless thoso of tho Star aro ac
dustoracd to tho employment of such
nefarious methods This Insult to
ono Hawaiian should not go unnoticed
and Hawailans should always bear it
in mind that ono of them has been in
sulted and that by a Republican organ
Hawalians can nover for ono moment
expect any quarter from such a source
Its an ill wind that blows nobody any
good
OR AOTfi GOYSflNOR
Should anybody take tho troublo to
Inform President Roosovelt that his
official family has deserted the capital
city of Hawaii and loft it to bo run
by a woman ho would piobably doubt
the narrators sanity It would only
need however tho transmission of n
cable dispatch requiring an Immed
iate answor for him to verify tho in
formation Governor Carter has dono
an exceedingly foolish thing In leav
ing Honolulu without a presidential
repiosontative after Mr Roosevelt has
taken tho trouble to appoint two of
them Possibly nothing of Importance
will transplro whoioby tho prcsonco
of cither of thoso officials will bo
missed Let us hope so
It might havo been as well though
that ono of them should bo hero In
caso Delegate Kuhlo Kalanlanaole
cabled for rnoro information regarding
tho County Act and to show that tho
Exccutlvo really did havo more than
a half hearted interest in Its passage
From one viewpoint it is Just as well
that Jack tho Jollier was not left
hero alone Ho would only make a fool
of himself nnd tho Territory if called
unon to give serious consideration and
pass deliberate ofllcial judgment upon
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any affair of state
But what about Acting Governor
Kate Kelley who ranking noxt In offi
cial seniority to Jack tho Jollier Is
presumably left In chargo of tho Ex
ecutive branch of tho administration
Should official decision bo required of
her we prcsurao sho would consult
Acting Secretary of tho Territory Kate
Kelley adjust her spectacles and cable
the President that the country was safo
An opinion from the Attorney General
would bo of little valuo to her so sho
might just as well go it alone By the
way how is it that Kelley always hangs
on to her job Governors and Secre
taries may como and go but Kato
hangs on forever Knowing how often
and how loudly Jack tho Jollier has
expressed himself as opposed to women
in office especially when they tako the
places of voters it would seem as If
Jack had been jollied this time and that
Kates oft pronounced dictum that
they coulant get along without her
was only too true With many such
officials as Kid Atkinson around tho
Executlvo chambers the gray mare is
undoubtedly tho better horse Our
hats off to you Miss Kelley and long
may you draw a big salary that would
be appreciated by many a hungry voter
with a family
OvorworEed Popifs
Educators of the city aro through
tho columns of tho morning press dis
cussing tho question of whether or not
school children are being overtaxed by
their studies at homo Except In rare
cases wo do not think ao Tho time
between school hours and tho short
while usually given in tho homo to
study affords nmplo opportunity for
diversion nnd rest of mind and body
This however applies only to sucn
pupils as return to their homos overy
day In tho boarding schools whero
everything Is straight laced and tho
work is like that of a camp of soldiers
except that thoro la no liberty
iho situation is quite different Tako
tlio Kamehameha School lor Girls for
oxample From tho tlmo tho pupil
rises in tho morning until sho retires
nt night nil Is study and work- Thero
aro no breathing spells to speak of
and for nearly ten mouths tho pupil
is to all intents and purposes a pris
oner Is it any wonder that on Com
moncomont night tho graduates look
pale and worn and not Infrequently
ono or more is too ill to appear at
all This school la cited merely as an
example and not as an excoptlon Wo
bollovo that othor boarding schools of
tho city aro equally guilty of overtax
ing their pupils
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An Anonymous Smut
Treasurer Kopolkal iu a statement
Bulletin calls
made in last evenings
the Star editor or writer or whatever
one may chooso to call him for it lm
responsible editor out
no published or
side of its manager an anonymous
sneak Who may this anonymous
sneak bo la ho the Superintendent
known ns Ala
of Public Instruction
tau T Atkinson or Is ho Frank J
Hoogs Its manager or Is ho Chns 1
Rhodes a member of its writing staff
All threo aro known writers but which
ono of tho trio is that anonymous
Bncak Wo havo our own opinion
and wo think ho Is none other than
tho ono In Government pay Oh you
sneak
TOPICS OF THK DAY
On another pago Is pilntcd n re
sumo of a sermon preached by Father
Coffey nt St Louis In which ho de
clares that tho corruption In Missouri
politics Is duo to tho scheming of the
good people Tho wrong doers aro
tho mere tools or the good people
ho declares We bcllevo every word
ho cays for wo have the Identical
thing here la Hawaii If any act of
rascality In office or corruption in
politics could be followed down to tho
base a foundation strata of Central
Union church clothes prayer books
and missionaries would bo discovered
We And after all that the Korea did
not carry away U S District Attorney
Brcckons the man with tho glass eye
the man of all men who got well paid
for drafting a rotten County Aot Not
only is ho an over estimated man but
he meddles too much In our local poll
tics Is on active partisan and has no
interest whatever In the country As
a Federal official ho does not pay a
cent or taxes here and yet ho has
much to say and Is treated as a big
gun whose sight Is not keen enough
to seo things straight as thoy might bo
but only to see thorn tho way desired
of him which pays him bettor than It
otherwlso was tho case
Jamos L Holt E S Boyd and A V
Gear aro mentioned for tho office of
Assessor All except Gear have already
llled thoir applications for tho plnce
With duo deference to their
past work Mr Holt and Mr Boyd in
our opinion aro not qualified in a bus
iness way to fulfill tho duties of tho
Important office This loaves Mr Gear
In tho field and wo bellovo ovoryono
will admit that ho ia lar and away
ahead of tho other two In business
capacity and a thoiough business
man Is wanted in tho offlco Having
boon for years in tho real ostato busi
ness ho has a wide and thorough
knowledge of values and besides ho
Is a man easy to approach and will not
Insult people aB has been tho practice
of tax assessois In Honolulu for tho
past cloven years
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that too whfoh will givo yomatii
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